I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Value is the best thing in the world.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.